Last week’s show examined the difficult life of a Catholic Saint, Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska. This week, we will take a detailed look at the divine mission this Saint pursued during her short 33 years of physical life. In a nutshell, Saint Faustina’s mission, in tandem with the mission lives of important compatriots, most notably Blessed Father Michael Sopocko, and Saint Pope John Paul II, was to refocus and elevate the Church’s advocacy of Divine Mercy. Throughout human history, God has gotten a “bad rap,” via the unceasing manipulations of the interlopers. The image of God became one of a harsh, stern, aloof overseer who demanded perfection and judged its nonattainment in the most severe terms. The fascinating mission lives of these Church celebrities, was clearly to attempt to elevate the importance and even primacy of divine mercy over the widespread assumptions and beliefs about divine justice. What can Creator tell us?

This is a fair accounting of the mission taken on by these church members in various ways at various times, but all knowing within, the God of the Old Testament, widely believed to be harsh and judgmental in some respects, is not the God they knew, and wanted to do something about this misunderstanding. That God's mercy is very, very real and far outweighs any kind of negative assessment or perspective about individuals, and especially their weaknesses and even wrongdoing. Speaking with you now, we can tell you that we hold no enmity, no hostility, no resentment, no grudges against anyone. Even the most evil among you, we know are bigger and better than that. People are corrupted and pushed into doing all kinds of things that work against their own nature, their own character, and certainly their origin as an extension of us. We can tell you categorically, that everything attributed to God of a harsh, judgmental, and punitive nature is a distortion, at a minimum, and in many cases an outright fabrication entirely, in representing something happened which, in fact, did not. Anyone who works for the cause of the divine will, in one way or another, help to undo that slur. A condemnation and damning of us, as to be feared, if not loathed, is the height of misrepresentation in a propaganda war launched by the darkness that has taken hold, through thousands of years now, and still lives in the hearts of many as a false testimony and misrepresentation of the purpose of existence. The existence of the Divine as a Source of Love, as the most powerful of the universe, that is the face we show to the world in everything we do. We grant you that our gift to you, of free agency and free will, that requires us to stay in the background and let you lead, to govern and control your world yourselves, often leaves no one to blame but us, at least in common thinking about disasters and catastrophes of all kinds, whose existence seems to proclaim, "It must be God's will, or even God's handiwork, to bring it about." Those perspectives are the corruption, they are the very darkness we are accused of harboring when we are blamed for perceived wrongdoing, but the blame lies elsewhere and we, in fact, are your salvation if you reach out to us.